We’ve been thinking about the future of IndieAgora and whether introducing our own token — an IndieAgora cryptocurrency — would be worth doing. The idea would be to create a token that’s fully integrated across the site, something that rewards activity and participation.
Imagine earning tokens for posting on the forums, commenting on BuddyPress activity, uploading videos to PeerTube, joining groups, or contributing in discussions. Those tokens could then be used to tip other members, unlock exclusive content, or even vote on community-driven decisions about how IndieAgora develops. Over time, this could build a shared ecosystem where every contribution has tangible value.
Because IndieAgora connects BuddyPress, phpBB, PeerTube, and soon Lemmy, the token could act as a unifying layer across everything. You might earn tokens for uploading a video, then spend them unlocking premium forum content or tipping another creator. It could also open the door to monetizing without relying on ads — allowing creators to be rewarded directly by the community.
Of course, there are challenges. If the token has real-world value, there are legal and regulatory considerations. Technically, we’d also need to decide whether to start off-chain, storing balances within IndieAgora’s existing databases, or go straight to a blockchain like Polygon or Solana. Starting off-chain would let us test the idea first without worrying about transaction fees or compliance issues.
So, the question is: would you want to see something like this on IndieAgora?
Should we start small with an internal, site-wide reward system and see how it works before deciding whether to launch a real blockchain token later? Or would you prefer we focus on other features first?
What do you think — is an IndieAgora token worth creating?
IndieAgora Crypto?
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Re: IndieAgora Crypto?
I like all these ambitious and innovative ideas and generally support all kinds of cool stuff, but I also don't even really like money all that much in the first place and like feeling infinitely wealthy through total freedom and accessibility. I'm barred from enough things by being poor or whatever else. What I'd prefer maybe more is a way to commit crimes. Raiding threads and setting them on fire, but without any threat to my threads from others. Basically what I'd want is total impunity, just like I'm learning is possible from our real world, run by our greatest minds who are most dedicated by dealing with money and power.
If you put into action the crypto idea, then it should be tested without regulatory fees and obligations.
What would be better than that, besides not having it or any stresses, would be something where you secretly enrich us somehow, making us extremely wealthy just by knowing you and writing whatever we feel like on here at any time without any pressure or obligation to do so or need. Then we find out we've secretly, and in a secure way, have become shockingly wealthy in a legal way that we can cash out, informed when we should and how to do it. Then I go and get the money, and I turn it into some kind of investment thing that gives me a paycheck from its earnings every month, which cover all my expenses and give me even more. I also want a house, somewhere accessible so I can be near the places I frequent, even without a vehicle as is the case currently, but also have space for my library of books and things.
Hopefully the future only looks like an impenetrably opaque wall because I don't know what it holds, and not because I don't have one. I am going to be 40 in a month, and it is hard to imagine being alive into the future, but it always was, so I'll probably be fine.
My memories are all messed up. Barely anything bad has actually happened, but looking back somehow I can't really recall anything good, even though I liked it better than now and the future is even more terrifying, but everything seems to skew negatively in recall. I feel like everything is a regrettable waste, I didn't say or do anything I wanted, it wasn't necessarily available to me, my creative abilities and potential were wasted, I don't know anyone and I avoid knowing anyone and even wouldn't like feeling pressure to maintain interactions which require much of me. It is hard to believe that any of this is anything but trah mainly. I feel fine for the most part and cheerful but I wonder what these things are, like why I feel so negatively about everything. I fear death, so I don't embrace that. I don't take any risks.
I wish I understood things like Crypto better. If you are just our Crypto investor and Robin Hood and just make us all really wealthy in a way which wr can't lose anything or feel like we could've been richer if only this or that, then I have no objection to having all my needs met and fantasies come true.
A nice, spacious house and all of my things set up and accessible to me, is just a less embarassing place to be found dead in than this mess.
Lots of money might make more opportunities available to me but at this point, I wonder if I'd even use the money for much? The people seem like belligerent acid spewing thugs, all the internet shows me are freaks that I dislike mainly. I wouldn't be able to use the money to tear down everything I despise, and whatever i despise has grown to monstrous proportions over the years which I typo'd as tears.
I'm shocked by the motivation people still feel to do anything. I am even amused that I can manage to type, research, collect what I do still, and that I can stimulate my brain. This world seems deeply infected with a disease it is never looking to remove as necessary to become paradisical, and party poopers seem to weasel their way into positions of power and locking people into convoluted Catch 22 type systems that leave people, probably many people, paralyzed in many ways, or running in a maze with no real pleasant rewards or resolution, just dying on the way back to the same spot.
If Crypto can somehow make my life better, I'm all for better, but if it is going to stress me out, I've got 99 problems and for now the Crypto ain't one of them.
What I want, need, and feel I'd benefit from, is safety, security, stability, ability, lack of pressures, lack of stresses, lack of obligations, everything like a paradise rather than cyberpunk, I want freedom, space, access, the ability to do things, to not be bothered. These probably basically g*y in the worst way, like S*d*m*t* r*p*st style people seem to love controlling and dominating living things. I'm not into that, for now, and instead mostly never liked the idea of having much to do with any living things or things at all in most ways. I guess, I'm not as far from my ideals, but I don't feel secure, and I don't feel healthy, and I feel burdened, but not yet by anything on this site really, which I have been using to keep bringing my mind to things which make me feel good things or to be stimulated and entertained by myself mainly, like a sandbox or palette and chalkboard or board anyway that I can put up things and look at them again, so basically like the spacious house I was talking about, for free, online.
I have basically, a lot of space here to do whatever I want, put up whatever I want, refer to whatever I want. Since observer ghosts can potentially wander into my rooms, I just can't smear sh*t and bl**d on the walls too much in case they call some Phantom Menace upon me for offending their eyes with my decorating tastes. Luckily, I myself have no such extreme tastes or preferences anyway, preferring old fashioned and mainstream or average and expected beauty over everything.
I don't care about money and wish it wasn't even a thing anywhere. The ideal for me is that somehow everything is easily at hand or miraculously provided, available all around me, with no one getting in my way or interfering, and if ever there is an issue, it should be dealt with and resolved swiftly, and I don't like sharing the world with many of the characters we see dominating the world's attention and interfering with peace.
In the documentary I showed recently, the Piraha were living a fine life for a long time, but then the villainous Noam Chomsky had to destroy their existence so that he could remain unnecessarily prestigious in text references lol, and everything was being done to separate a people from a Dan that they wanted to see again. The story made me sick.
I have 33 things I've been re-using on here, plus a lot more beyond that in other places I'm writing among the many different walls.
I've barely been using or even checking the other areas or functions.
So far it has been mostly this forum through the forum site, and then the chat function which might be just a little laggy or delayed for me once in a while, probably die to needing to clean up my cache or other issues, but could potentially be even smoother feeling so ehow or less modern to make it move extremely smoothly.
I haven't had too many issues with anything, just running into all my writing being deleted before it is posted sometimes and hitting a word count wall which is then easily bypassed by copying what isn't within the limit and posting it afterwards as many times as necessary to get all the writing in.
I might have liked using the file upload site more, but my real name is attached to my music files from the past, which I don't mind any of you knowing and which you may already know or have known at some point but because this site is public and there are creeps working out of military and government computer labs on a rampage online, I feel less comfortable with people like that, damn their eyes, who might be able to see my name or appearance or hear my voice or get hold of anything they could use to harm me, which should be highly likely anyway since I'm an ineffectual nobody with practically no footprint or impact on this world.
So my vote for crypto is a no that I feel bad about, otherwise to test it without incurring fees.
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I like the IAGO symbol, but could you explain the part with the O or solid circle. That part might be slightly bothering me. So ehen I look at this symbol, it is like I am looking at a face, and when I look at a face, then it is like I'm looking in a mirror or at my own face. I want my face to look attractive and pleasant, but I see on my face this mark or spot. Looking at my Indie Agora face, it is reflecting on my right cheek, as if it was mirror. It bothers my right cheek. What is this spot on my face, it burns.
I suspect that, even though people might not consciously register such a practice in play, that they also view many things as though they are reflecting on themselves, and so most likely feel best of all looking at things that don't bother them, or otherwise really bother them so that they become fixated and fascinated by the disturbing sensations. The A and the rest looks cool and like an Om symbol and other similar things. I'm even somewhat tolerant of the orange, which might be among one of my least favorite colors. I wonder if the symbol would be too boring without looking like Jason Schwartzman from Rushmore or Charles B. 'Charlie' Barkin, both of which are appropriate anyway, and the disturbance may actually make the symbol more memorable too. It bothers me quite a bit lol. I looked at it again just now and that circle!
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G_jUilpPRBM/maxresdefault.jpg
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/anima ... 0222014844
The nuances of psychological reactions and interpretations regarding anything, like art, is of interest to me, like how they can manage to make a deformed (as a human) dog face signal as an attractive female character lol.
If you put into action the crypto idea, then it should be tested without regulatory fees and obligations.
What would be better than that, besides not having it or any stresses, would be something where you secretly enrich us somehow, making us extremely wealthy just by knowing you and writing whatever we feel like on here at any time without any pressure or obligation to do so or need. Then we find out we've secretly, and in a secure way, have become shockingly wealthy in a legal way that we can cash out, informed when we should and how to do it. Then I go and get the money, and I turn it into some kind of investment thing that gives me a paycheck from its earnings every month, which cover all my expenses and give me even more. I also want a house, somewhere accessible so I can be near the places I frequent, even without a vehicle as is the case currently, but also have space for my library of books and things.
Hopefully the future only looks like an impenetrably opaque wall because I don't know what it holds, and not because I don't have one. I am going to be 40 in a month, and it is hard to imagine being alive into the future, but it always was, so I'll probably be fine.
My memories are all messed up. Barely anything bad has actually happened, but looking back somehow I can't really recall anything good, even though I liked it better than now and the future is even more terrifying, but everything seems to skew negatively in recall. I feel like everything is a regrettable waste, I didn't say or do anything I wanted, it wasn't necessarily available to me, my creative abilities and potential were wasted, I don't know anyone and I avoid knowing anyone and even wouldn't like feeling pressure to maintain interactions which require much of me. It is hard to believe that any of this is anything but trah mainly. I feel fine for the most part and cheerful but I wonder what these things are, like why I feel so negatively about everything. I fear death, so I don't embrace that. I don't take any risks.
I wish I understood things like Crypto better. If you are just our Crypto investor and Robin Hood and just make us all really wealthy in a way which wr can't lose anything or feel like we could've been richer if only this or that, then I have no objection to having all my needs met and fantasies come true.
A nice, spacious house and all of my things set up and accessible to me, is just a less embarassing place to be found dead in than this mess.
Lots of money might make more opportunities available to me but at this point, I wonder if I'd even use the money for much? The people seem like belligerent acid spewing thugs, all the internet shows me are freaks that I dislike mainly. I wouldn't be able to use the money to tear down everything I despise, and whatever i despise has grown to monstrous proportions over the years which I typo'd as tears.
I'm shocked by the motivation people still feel to do anything. I am even amused that I can manage to type, research, collect what I do still, and that I can stimulate my brain. This world seems deeply infected with a disease it is never looking to remove as necessary to become paradisical, and party poopers seem to weasel their way into positions of power and locking people into convoluted Catch 22 type systems that leave people, probably many people, paralyzed in many ways, or running in a maze with no real pleasant rewards or resolution, just dying on the way back to the same spot.
If Crypto can somehow make my life better, I'm all for better, but if it is going to stress me out, I've got 99 problems and for now the Crypto ain't one of them.
What I want, need, and feel I'd benefit from, is safety, security, stability, ability, lack of pressures, lack of stresses, lack of obligations, everything like a paradise rather than cyberpunk, I want freedom, space, access, the ability to do things, to not be bothered. These probably basically g*y in the worst way, like S*d*m*t* r*p*st style people seem to love controlling and dominating living things. I'm not into that, for now, and instead mostly never liked the idea of having much to do with any living things or things at all in most ways. I guess, I'm not as far from my ideals, but I don't feel secure, and I don't feel healthy, and I feel burdened, but not yet by anything on this site really, which I have been using to keep bringing my mind to things which make me feel good things or to be stimulated and entertained by myself mainly, like a sandbox or palette and chalkboard or board anyway that I can put up things and look at them again, so basically like the spacious house I was talking about, for free, online.
I have basically, a lot of space here to do whatever I want, put up whatever I want, refer to whatever I want. Since observer ghosts can potentially wander into my rooms, I just can't smear sh*t and bl**d on the walls too much in case they call some Phantom Menace upon me for offending their eyes with my decorating tastes. Luckily, I myself have no such extreme tastes or preferences anyway, preferring old fashioned and mainstream or average and expected beauty over everything.
I don't care about money and wish it wasn't even a thing anywhere. The ideal for me is that somehow everything is easily at hand or miraculously provided, available all around me, with no one getting in my way or interfering, and if ever there is an issue, it should be dealt with and resolved swiftly, and I don't like sharing the world with many of the characters we see dominating the world's attention and interfering with peace.
In the documentary I showed recently, the Piraha were living a fine life for a long time, but then the villainous Noam Chomsky had to destroy their existence so that he could remain unnecessarily prestigious in text references lol, and everything was being done to separate a people from a Dan that they wanted to see again. The story made me sick.
I have 33 things I've been re-using on here, plus a lot more beyond that in other places I'm writing among the many different walls.
I've barely been using or even checking the other areas or functions.
So far it has been mostly this forum through the forum site, and then the chat function which might be just a little laggy or delayed for me once in a while, probably die to needing to clean up my cache or other issues, but could potentially be even smoother feeling so ehow or less modern to make it move extremely smoothly.
I haven't had too many issues with anything, just running into all my writing being deleted before it is posted sometimes and hitting a word count wall which is then easily bypassed by copying what isn't within the limit and posting it afterwards as many times as necessary to get all the writing in.
I might have liked using the file upload site more, but my real name is attached to my music files from the past, which I don't mind any of you knowing and which you may already know or have known at some point but because this site is public and there are creeps working out of military and government computer labs on a rampage online, I feel less comfortable with people like that, damn their eyes, who might be able to see my name or appearance or hear my voice or get hold of anything they could use to harm me, which should be highly likely anyway since I'm an ineffectual nobody with practically no footprint or impact on this world.
So my vote for crypto is a no that I feel bad about, otherwise to test it without incurring fees.
Added in 16 minutes 59 seconds:
I like the IAGO symbol, but could you explain the part with the O or solid circle. That part might be slightly bothering me. So ehen I look at this symbol, it is like I am looking at a face, and when I look at a face, then it is like I'm looking in a mirror or at my own face. I want my face to look attractive and pleasant, but I see on my face this mark or spot. Looking at my Indie Agora face, it is reflecting on my right cheek, as if it was mirror. It bothers my right cheek. What is this spot on my face, it burns.
I suspect that, even though people might not consciously register such a practice in play, that they also view many things as though they are reflecting on themselves, and so most likely feel best of all looking at things that don't bother them, or otherwise really bother them so that they become fixated and fascinated by the disturbing sensations. The A and the rest looks cool and like an Om symbol and other similar things. I'm even somewhat tolerant of the orange, which might be among one of my least favorite colors. I wonder if the symbol would be too boring without looking like Jason Schwartzman from Rushmore or Charles B. 'Charlie' Barkin, both of which are appropriate anyway, and the disturbance may actually make the symbol more memorable too. It bothers me quite a bit lol. I looked at it again just now and that circle!
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G_jUilpPRBM/maxresdefault.jpg
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/anima ... 0222014844
The nuances of psychological reactions and interpretations regarding anything, like art, is of interest to me, like how they can manage to make a deformed (as a human) dog face signal as an attractive female character lol.